Students of Meditation

26/11/2020

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17/11/2020

DEAR YOU, ✨
by the end of next week I will TAKE DOWN ALL ONLINE COURSES that students of meditation currently offers. It has been very tough on me, but here is why:

I've invested a lot of time, energy and money into building this online school. I've tried to make the best out of the whole COVID-situation, offering what I can in order to help and inspire people while moving my business online.

Even though a fair group of students followed me into the online world and many new ones found me in the beginning of the year (when URBAN SPORTS CLUB still allowed me to offer meditations online), now I am stepping back from all of it.

Being online so much, "selling" meditation, always being chased to do more, show more, sell more, is not something that feels good for me or that I want to do day in and day out. It doesn't reward me personally.

In this "spiritual" online market I see many "teachers" selling high-frequencies and well-meant-concepts, "goddesses"-workshops or glossy new-age-prophecies about how now is the time that LOVE will overthrow everything false and if you're not part of the chosen people, you will be doomed. Just random examples, I am sure you've seen stuff like that.

I also see a lot of great, fancy pictures of beautiful men and women, I read a lot of well written texts (especially from a psychological perspective) and notice so many opportunities that come my way to "COMPLETELY TRANSFORM" my life within a week or month. Well, okay.

I've tried my bit as well, and I hated it. To me it was always important that SOM is NOT about esoteric make-believes, spiritual concepts or a glossy display of new-age-prophecies, that are flooding social media from every corner.

It wasn't always easy, because of course I was also selling something. Only to me, what I am selling doesn't feel as glorious, transformative, glossy as most of those other offerings though - or at least I resist to sell it that way. Because what I am selling is simple: PRACTICE.

Dry, challenging, sometimes uncomfortable, unwarranted outcomes day-in and day-out PRACTICE.

I didn't want to predict how your life turns out when you practice more regularly, because I DONT KNOW.
I didn't want to claim my ways as THE BEST WAYS for you, because I don't know that either.
I just wanted to help you find practices that work for you, so you knew how to do it and how to look upon it, by yourself or with others.

It didn't work so well for me actually. If modern day marketing is rewarding me for being more self-righteous about myself, more aggressive towards my potential clients and more glorifying about my work, then it doesn't work for me.

I've spent many many hours chasing, trying to assimilate to the "online-ways", and spend a lot of money to set everything up and advertise it. But in the end I guess I just failed - and I am not completely unhappy about it.

From now on I won't offer meditation online anymore, but look within what I want to do instead. Actually sitting on that porch doing nothing for a while would be the most precious thing to me anyway.

I am very grateful for everyone who meditated with me, live or in person, and to everyone who signed up for the online courses.
(You can still enroll until the 27th of November btw. This is - for real - your last chance now. After that the courses won't be accessible anymore.)

I wish you a very good time, see you again
Ben
from students of meditation

08/11/2020

LET'S BE CLEAR RIGHT AWAY. ✨

Students of Meditation is an online school that helps you to explore basic practices of meditation, to clear out misconceptions and to attain states of silence / spaciousness / depth.

It is NOT about esoteric make-believes, spiritual concepts or a glossy display of new-age-prophecies, that are flooding social media nowadays.

If you are interested in exploring meditation for real, this is for you.

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I HELP YOU ...

To be more GROUNDED in your body.
To attain states of SILENCE and SPACIOUSNESS.
To DEAL WITH BASIC CHALLENGES that you will face in your practice.
To JOIN A WAY OF PRACTICE that doesn’t depend on comfort, concepts or apps.


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ARE YOU ...

Willing to try it for yourself?
To devote 30 minutes every day for six weeks? Three month? One year?
Are you curious to practice "being here" regardless of the circumstance?

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YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN STUDENTS OF MEDITATION
AND EXPLORE MEDITATION IN YOUR OWN LIFE.

How is your practice going these days?
Let me know if you like 🙏

Students of Meditation is an online school that helps you to explore basic practices of meditation, to clear out misconceptions and to attain states of silence / spaciousness / depth.

30/10/2020

IT FEELS AS TRUE TODAY as it did during the last quarantine. Let's not forget the spaciousness, emptiness, openness in which everything arises in, but instead connect with it, contemplate it. It is the origin of love, compassion and clarity, and whatever might challenge us today, having a friend like spaciousness to help us face those challenges is the most precious thing I can think of.

A grounded, restful weekend everyone 🙏

29/10/2020

Here we go again. ✨
Stay healthy, open and creative everyone. 🙏
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You know that one of the most effective methods to move from the "Fear zone" into the "Learning Zone" into the "Growth Zone" is meditation, right?

It supports ...
the grounding of your BODY
the clarity of your MIND
the openness of your HEART
and the balance of your NERVOUS SYSTEM.

All of which are prerequisites of being healthy, open and creative in the midst of crisis.

You probably know that, but perhaps you still don't practice regularly. Right?

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Well, now is the time to develop a meditation practice that truly works for you. If you start today, follow a couple of practices and continue for ONE MONTH, can you imagine yourself in four weeks? Do you think it could support you for the better?

And you really don't (!) have to do it alone (!). Help is already here.

ARE YOU READY?

See you inside,
Ben from Students of Meditation

Are you willing to become an explorer of meditation, truly applying and experimenting with the practices provided here? 

09/10/2020

ARE YOU READY?

To develop a meditation practice that truly works for you?

To let go of esoteric fantasies and explore how meditation can actually bring deep benefits to your life BEYOND the wide-spread sales pitch of meditation?

To rest in „being here“ and to re-discover clarity, presence and openness in the midst of everything that is happening right now?

(The sales pitch of meditation currently consists of various healthy-feel-good-relaxation-promises, over-simplyified ideas of manifesting your dream life or healing yourself. All of it is NOT the intention of this course.)

It’s time to explore meditation for real.
Are you ready to give it a shot?

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IN THIS COURSE

👉 I explain why mental activity, physical pain and not-having deep
realizations aren’t bad phenomena

👉 I show you PRACTICES to attain states of silence / spaciousness / emptiness

👉 I explain how to deal with basic CHALLENGES in meditation

👉 I answer 15 fundamental questions about meditation
in one QUICK-START-GUIDE

👉 I provide you with a 1-MIN-CHECKLIST and a REFLECTION-QUESTIONNAIRE after each of the 4 modules

👉 I provide you with 3 GUIDED MEDITATIONS (Presence/ Heartspace/ 3-Sync), that you can listen to daily to install deep states and practices in your body and mind

👉 I host one FREE ZOOM-CALL every month to exchange, practice, celebrate and learn from each other

👉 You gain access to a COMMUNITY OF STUDENTS through an early-bird-mailing network

👉 The BONUS SECTION includes an essential map of deeper states of consciousness, a grounding meditation and more …

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There is a 33 % DISCOUNT available until the 15th of November.

Just go to the end of the course page (https://studentsofmeditation.teachable.com/courses) and choose either the Lifelong-Access or the Autumn-Payment-Plan. Then enter the COUPON: STUDENT33 and click on "Apply".

Looking forward to meditate with you.
Ben from Students of Meditation

09/10/2020

WHEN TIMES ARE STRESSFUL, I rely on my internal and external resources to make it through. In terms of energy, there are - simply said - two types of internal resources: The first one is the energy that I have running through me freely, the second one is the energy stored in me, which we could call my battery. If my free energy gets drained too much, my body will start to free the energy of my battery and hopefully that will get me through the stressful time.

Now, when that time has come to an end, I have a natural need to slow down and to refill my battery. If I don’t allow that to happen, in other words if I don’t consciously engage in refilling myself in ways that really nourish my sense of presence, relaxation, openness, connection, belonging, I risk to continuously running on low battery. If I do that for too long, at some point I am gonna „burn out“.

Meditation can help in two ways. Firstly it can be a great helper in refilling our batteries once they are drained. Secondly it can help us to ground our experience in our bodies while we go through stressful times, so we digest more stress in between and don’t have to drain our batteries as much.

10 min are enough to make a difference.

Therefore I’ve uploaded a FREE 10-MIN-GROUNDING Meditation to soundcloud just now. Whenever you need to, just listen to it and ground yourself. It’s easy, it works, and I believe we all need it now and then.

Happy Weekend everyone.
🍂🙏

In this Grounding Meditation you will be guided into your body, to pause for a moment, whenever needed. The meditation is restful and simple. Moreover, it allows you to unclinch your mind and let tens

11/09/2020

When people hear that I teach meditation, very often they say things like "Oh, I want to meditate, but I don't know how."

OR "I've tried, but I really can't do it."

OR sometimes people just nod and say "What kind of meditation? I did Vipassana ONCE. So amazing."

Well, even though meditation is very complex on the one side, it is very simple on the other.

I believe if you commit to a guided practice for one (!) month, it can boost your confidence in meditation tremendously and lead to a much more consistent practice of meditation, which is - as we all know - the easiest path to a deeper understanding of meditation, to experience higher spiritual states or to open up much more as a human being.

BUT HOW DO YOU GET STARTED? 🙆‍♂️

Do you need to know things about meditation or can you simply start on your own? Anything that you can do wrong? When do you know that meditation works?

Well, I've created an online QUICK-START-COURSE for everyone who wants to jump in DIRECTLY.

CUT THE BU****IT - Just drop in to deepen your practice right now.

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👉 I explain why mental activity, physical pain and not-having deep
realizations aren’t bad phenomena

👉 I show you PRACTICES to attain states of silence / spaciousness / emptiness

👉 I explain how to deal with basic CHALLENGES in meditation

👉 I answer 15 fundamental questions about meditation
in one QUICK-START-GUIDE

👉 I provide you with a 1-MIN-CHECKLIST and a REFLECTION-QUESTIONNAIRE after each of the 4 modules

👉 I provide you with 3 GUIDED MEDITATIONS (Presence/ Heartspace/ 3-Sync), that you can listen to daily to install deep states and practices in your body and mind

👉 I host one FREE ZOOM-CALL every month to exchange, practice, celebrate and learn from each other

👉 You gain access to a COMMUNITY OF STUDENTS through an early-bird-mailing network

👉 The BONUS SECTION includes an essential map of deeper states of consciousness, a grounding meditation and more …

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Let's use the more quiet, more home oriented quality of THE COMING SEASON and make meditation a priority (again)?

To me personally, autumn is a great time to get deeper into meditative practice, digesting as well as harvesting everything that I've experienced this year.

Well, anyway. You can decide that for yourself.
See you on the other side 😉
Ben
Students of meditation

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There is a 33 % DISCOUNT available until the 31st of October.

Just go to the end of the course page (https://studentsofmeditation.teachable.com) and choose either the Lifelong-Access or the Autumn-Payment-Plan. Then enter the COUPON: STUDENT33 and click on "Apply".
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